Will their ever be cross world regional play?

With nothing in the live letters will their be cross world regional play?

Visiting other data centres in their geographic locations from other countries?

Only if we keep making posts like this.

Likely not soon or anytime in the future..cause of two words. Cultural differences!!

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Originally Posted by NanaWiloh

Likely not soon or anytime in the future..cause of two words. Cultural differences!!

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I don't think that is a good argument because you can make new characters in other regions or do homeworld transfers to them, and people do.

I doubt it. Each region has their own playstyle. NA and JP approach content differently, with NA favoring “greedy” play and JP favoring “safer” play. Besides, there would also be a language barrier that auto-translate might not be able to break.

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Originally Posted by NanaWiloh

Likely not soon or anytime in the future..cause of two words. Cultural differences!!

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I don't think its a culture difference more of a coding issue then anything have other servers on one data server talk is one thing having other servers from other data servers is another

It could be possible one day... maybe but not a easy fix might not even be possible in this game its self I don't know the code for FF or how their servers work exactly but that's what it is so one can hope

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Originally Posted by Vatom

I don't think its a culture difference more of a coding issue then anything have other servers on one data server talk is one thing having other servers from other data servers is another

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I'm confident it can be done across regions and Yoshi-P has told us multiple times it is possible, but they aren't sure if they should do it and want our feedback on the forums.

We can already visit other data centers across regions by paying money for the Home World Transfer Service, which is proof that it's possible. The DC Travel and World Visit systems provide the infrastructure to do that temporarily and prevent it from corrupting your data or confusing the server, but with those already in place, I think they are just concerned about cultural or economic differences.

The restrictions on travel between data centers in the same region are as heavy as they would be across regions, otherwise we would still have access to FC and CWLS from other data centers in the same region. The FC and CWLS chats are obviously in the same building on different NA data center but they are pretending they are not.

when and if they get it working the same problem will always happen that is they will abuse it till they shut it down for repair with updates.

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Originally Posted by george357

when and if they get it working the same problem will always happen that is they will abuse it till they shut it down for repair with updates.

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That is a possibility with any patch ever, especially one that carries a significant risk to our data such as switching worlds. Every time a big or risky feature is released they will be prepared for the possibility that players find a way to break it that they didn't anticipate.

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Originally Posted by Frogstone

With nothing in the live letters will their be cross world regional play?

Visiting other data centres in their geographic locations from other countries?

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I hope they don't, but if they do, disable Trade and MB purchases from different Regions, Only allow these two features on your own Regions DC.

Cultural differences are one of the reasons that probably dissuade them from actually doing it, but then there's the whole technology/time barrier for them. That's not to say that it isn't possible, but they've only recently managed to incorporate intra-DC, so travel within your same DC. I would argue that inter-DC is quite a way off. Maybe late 7.x, probably mid-8.x

I do think that the NA, EU and Oceania DC's could be connected even there was resistance for access to the JPN region, originally we were all together in the Canadian data centre

https://i.imgur.com/iUlN4Ze.png
What is the point of Oceania if nobody lives in Austria :(

It's pretty well known that JP doesn't want anyone else coming into their servers that isn't a native. Been told stories of those who use English there and get kicked from duties or just flat out ignored. Another issue is that there's a fear that by allowing NA/EU to come visit that it will mess up their market boards or cause a shift in how content is run there. They rely mainly on DF for all content and have a certain expectations for said content.

The odds of us getting cross-region to JP is pretty much slim to none and personally with the way anyone that isn't JP is treated there...I'd rather not go for any reason other than to look at housing designs lol.

Can't wait for Balmung to invade the JP servers.

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Originally Posted by PaulH

I do think that the NA, EU and Oceania DC's could be connected even there was resistance for access to the JPN region, originally we were all together in the Canadian data centre

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We should return everyone to Mother Canada. Well said!

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Originally Posted by NekoMataMata

We should return everyone to Mother Canada. Well said!

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I don’t miss the horrible ping we had in 2013, playing from eu

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Originally Posted by LianaThorne

The odds of us getting cross-region to JP is pretty much slim to none and personally with the way anyone that isn't JP is treated there...I'd rather not go for any reason other than to look at housing designs lol.

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I have a level 90 alt in Japan and I've haven't had any bad experiences although I don't do extremes or savage so can't speak for that. I do think that the chance of cross region to Japan isn't going to happen and I think it would embarrassing to do it in other regions and exclude Japan although I would personally take that if they would do it.

I want to be able to go to the EU and Materia.

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Originally Posted by LianaThorne

It's pretty well known that JP doesn't want anyone else coming into their servers that isn't a native. Been told stories of those who use English there and get kicked from duties or just flat out ignored. Another issue is that there's a fear that by allowing NA/EU to come visit that it will mess up their market boards or cause a shift in how content is run there. They rely mainly on DF for all content and have a certain expectations for said content.

The odds of us getting cross-region to JP is pretty much slim to none and personally with the way anyone that isn't JP is treated there...I'd rather not go for any reason other than to look at housing designs lol.

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JP in general tends to be isolated. That's been the culture for years and I think seeing westerners be westerners reinforces that.

That aside, I think after the problems of mass gatherings on Crystal, DC travel might not expand further.

I honestly hope not. Some toxic people left my server to one of the European ones a while back and I really don't want to see them again.

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Originally Posted by Vatom

I don't think its a culture difference more of a coding issue then anything have other servers on one data server talk is one thing having other servers from other data servers is another

It could be possible one day... maybe but not a easy fix might not even be possible in this game its self I don't know the code for FF or how their servers work exactly but that's what it is so one can hope

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Yoshi-P has already stated that the system is developed to allow cross-region travel, back in January. "Differences in game economy and values" is the reason he gave for limiting travel between logical data centers within a physical data center.

Source: https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...0a98a3986554a2

Got a friend on an NA server that was hoping for this so she could play with me on EU.

She was.. .disappointed.